Archive Crisis
Medium: Book
Year: 2015
Format: 21 x 28 cm
Client: Stefanos Tsivopoulos, Japsam Books
Credits: NODE Berlin Oslo
Archive #
Stefanos Tsivopoulos, Archive Crisis
Shaking up the Shelves of History:
A Visual Essay on Media Images from the Recent Political Past of Greece
Edited by Stefanos Tsivopoulos and Hilde de Bruiijn, published by Japsam Books
Archive Crisis is a visual essay based on a series of previously unpublished images from Greek (media) archives collected by visual artist Stefanos Tsivopoulos. The book explores the mechanisms of visual culture in a mediatized democracy, and their effect on the production of collective memory.
In close collaboration with the artist we have been working with a range of photos from distinct archival sources. The book is divided into three acts: Installation, Transmission, Reaction. Followed by an appendix with essays by Dimitris Antoniou, Hilde de Bruijn and Alfredo Cramerotti.